{"id":75129,"date":"2015-01-29T00:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/fueling-begins-for-inmarsat-5-f2-proton-launch\/"},"modified":"2015-01-29T00:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:14:57","slug":"fueling-begins-for-inmarsat-5-f2-proton-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/fueling-begins-for-inmarsat-5-f2-proton-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling Begins for Inmarsat 5 F2 Proton Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 01-28-2015] <b>Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center<\/b> reports the Proton Integrated Launch Vehicle (ILV) has been transferred to the fueling area at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Fueling the Breeze-M upper stage low-pressure tanks will take two days to complete, after which the rocket will be rolled out to the launch complex. <b>International Launch Services<\/b> (ILS) is conducting the mission, which will launch <b>Inmarsat<\/b>\u2019s second Global Xpress (GX) High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Inmarsat 5 F2.<\/p>\n<p>The GX constellation, consisting of three satellites and one spare, is expected to be more than 100 times faster than the Inmarsat\u2019s fourth generation (I-4) constell<\/p>\n<p>ation\u2019s broadband services. Each satellite carries 89 beams and six steerable high-power spot beams for multi-regional coverage. The Inmarsat 5 F2 satellite\u2019s footprint will cover the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The third GX satellite is schedule to launch early in the second quarter of 2015, with global commercial service beginning in the second half of the year. <b>Boeing<\/b> is the prime contactor for Inmarsat\u2019s GX satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 01-28-2015] Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center reports the Proton Integrated Launch Vehicle (ILV) has been transferred to the fueling area at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Fueling the Breeze-M upper stage low-pressure tanks will take two days to complete, after which the rocket will be rolled out to the launch complex. International Launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}